Gabriele RossettiGabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti was an Italian aristocrat, poet, constitutionalist, and academic who founded the secret organization Carbonari. Rossetti was born in Vasto, Kingdom of Naples. He was a Roman Catholic. His sympathy for Italian revoltionary nationalism drove him into political exile in England in 1821. Giovanni Avalloni offered to publish Rossetti's poems after hearing him perform a few parts, and his first edition of poems was printed in 1807. Throughout his early career, Rossetti authored "patriotic" poems and supported the "popular movement" in Sicily, earning him a stipend from Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in 1820. Rossetti's published works include literary criticism, Romantic poetry, including his 1846 lengthy poem Il veggente in solitudine, and an autobiography. He is supposed to be the inspiration for the character Pesca in Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel The Woman in White. He also produced essays on Dante Alighieri, attempting to demonstrate proof of enigmatic ancient plots in his works. Read More Read Less